ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Hey all you retro-lovin’ kiddies! It’s that time of year again! The big jolly fella may be spying to see if you’re naughty or nice, so show ‘em how good (or bad, we don’t mind!) you are by gettin’ out and seeing what Retro Atlanta has in store for you! It’s a holiday hootenanny you won’t want to miss! Whether you’re hankerin’ for a good classic flick or are needing to get your retro rockin’ fix, come see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, December 22

Naughty or nice, y0u’ll want to make your way to The Strand Theatre for their holiday movie marathon of Frank Capra’s classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946), with a pre-show and sing-a-long with the Mighty Allen Theatre Organ (Showtime: 12pm, 3pm, 6pm and 9pm)! Or get some holiday hi-jinks at the Fox Theatre with their “Mighty Mo & More” annual holiday concert and sing-a-long, featuring Larry Douglas Embury and a screening of Chris Columbus’ HOME ALONE (1990) at 7:30pm! Cinemark Movies 10 in Fayetteville gets paranormal holiday-style with their screening of Richard Donner’s SCROOGED (1988) through Dec. 24! Get swingin’ at the Red Clay Theatre with Joe Gransden’s Big Band Holiday Show with special guest, Francine Reed! For a night of neo-pychedelia and garage rock, make your way to 529 for Novus, Mad Libre and Hot Wives! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! It’s a night of rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s with Barrelhouse Bob Page! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, December 23

Retro Atlanta has all the holiday flicks of yore! See how naughty Bruce Willis gets at Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of John McTiernan’s, DIE HARD (1988) at 10 pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Or catch Frank Capra’s holiday classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s “Home for the Holidays” screening at 7:30! Or if you prefer, you can catch this classic at the Sandy Plains Village in Roswell and in Suwannee, the Horizon Village Movie Taverns! Muppet mayhem ensues at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Brian Henson’s holiday classic, THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992) at 5pm!

Get jazzy Russian gypsy-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Longhorn and Debauche! Funk it up at Eddie’s Attic with Moontower and The Amazing Mongooses!! Blues it up with Fatback Deluxe at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! It’s your last chance to Scrooge it up at the Shakespeare Tavern’s Atlanta Shakespeare Company presentation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”! And The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 24

Christmas Eve has finally arrived! And there’s plenty of time to get down and dirty before the big fat man comes a’ knockin’! Get the retro holiday spirit at Tony Levitas & Friends’ classic rock ‘n’ roll holiday show at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Spring! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Or catch Frank Capra’s holiday classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s “Home for the Holidays” screening at 7:30 and at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 5pm! And it’s your last chance to spend the evening with ghosts of the past at the Alliance Theatre’s Dickens-style presentation of “A Christmas Carol”! Get classic at the Fox Theatre with Atlanta Ballet’s presentation of their holiday tradition of “The Nutcracker”, running through Dec. 28! Get the retro holiday spirit at the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present their adaptation of the 1964 stop-motion animated classic, ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,’ live on stage through Dec. 28! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, December 25

It’s a retro Christmas, folks! For those of you wondering, Retro Atlanta is alive and hopping today, so come on out and see what the jolly old fella has up his big red sleeve! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and Bill Sheffield deliver some rockin’ blues at the Northside Tavern ! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, December 26

Get intergalactic this holiday season at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Nicholas Webster’s SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS (1964), running through Dec. 28! It’s a night of rockin’ stompin’ blues at The Star Bar with the Pretend Sweethearts, Chickens & Pigs and Richard Bicknell! Rock out folk-style at The Earl with the Roadkill Ghost Choir, The Quaildogs and Pete De Lorenzo (Lucis Flux)! Tribute delivers a night of Allman Brothers tunes with Russ Still & the Moonshiners at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s a night of Scottish folk at the Red Clay Theatre with Jamie Laval’s Scottish Solstice Celebration! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Spring delivers their Winter Rock ‘n’ Roll Classics series with Absynthe Makes the Art Garfunkel! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers a night of glitter in the gutter with his GLAM vs. BRIT POP dance party at Famous Pub! It’s a mad world at the Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library in Decatur with their screening of Stanley Kramer’s IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1963) at 1:30pm! Blues it up with Houserocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Midnight Revival delivers a night of rockin’ roots at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, December 27

The holidays aren’t over Daddy-O! Rev on down to The Star Bar for the Rockabilly Christmas Ball featuring The Blacktop Rockets, Rodeo Twister, McPherson Struts, The Sideburners, Atomic Boogie and The Mystery Men? at 7pm! Or get some old-school soul and rock ‘n’ roll at The Earl with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics with Kingbaby! It’s a night of intergalactic groove and funk at the Red Light Café with The Space Time Travelers, Gialanella, Wiles & Hart, Kristen Englenz and Devon Williams! St. Paul & the Broken Bones deliver a night of high-energy mojo and soul at the Fox Theatre with Sam Burchfield! Funk it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Last Waltz Ensemble, Sugarfoot and the Julie Gribble Band! Punk on down to the Masquerade for raucous night with Rotten Stitches, The Riggs, Forsaken Profits, Above Repute, Dernier Combat and Pleasures of the Ultraviolent! The Michelle Malone Banned delivers a night of rockin’ blues and roots at the Crimson Moon Café! Get folksy at the Red Clay Theatre with Hannah Thomas and von Grey! For a night of rhythm, soul and rock ‘n’ roll, make your way to The Family Dog for The Hollidays! Get jazzy at the Lefont Theatre with their screening of Alan Hicks’ KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON (2014), documenting the life of legendary jazz musician, Clark Terry at 10:30am! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his BLACKOUT: Goth & Industrial Into the Darkness dance party at Famous Pub! Or spend the evening ‘80s-style with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at Kuzan’s in Suwannee! Rock out with Glenn Phillips and Cindy Wilson (B-52s) at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles get revved up at Motorheads in McDonough! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with The Cazanovas! It’s Muppet mayhem at the Charles D. Switzer Library in Marietta with their screening of Brian Henson’s THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992) at 3pm! Or get adventurous at the Powder Springs Public Library during their screening of Ken Annakin’s SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (1960) at 3pm! Eddie’s Attic delivers a night of indie soul and rock ‘n’ roll with Davin McCoy! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with the Ted Bauman Trio! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 28

Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch with the 570 String Band! And von Grey, Wyatt Espalin and Hannah Thomas deliver a night of alt-folk and rockin’ Americana blues at the Crimson Moon Café! And it’s your last chance to catch the Center for Puppetry Arts’ adaptation of Larry Roemer’s classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964)! And make your way to the Fox Theatre for the Atlanta Ballet’s last performance of “The Nutcracker”!

Ongoing

Shakespeare Tavern’s Atlanta Shakespeare Company presents Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 23! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Alliance Theatre gets retro Dickens-style with their “A Christmas Carol”, getting Scrooge-y through Dec. 24! (LAST CHANCE!)

Center for Puppetry Arts adapts Larry Roemer’s classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964) through Dec. 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Fox Theatre and the Atlanta Ballet present their holiday tradition of “The Nutcracker”, running through Dec. 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) exhibits 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair through Jan. 4!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Fueling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Baby, it’s cold outside! But no worries! Retro Atlanta promises to get you warm and toasty with a week of rockin’ good times, filled to the brim with nostalgic holiday goodness! So get hip to the jive and come on out to see what Retro Atlanta has in store for you!

Monday, December 15

Rock on down to The Earl for their screening of Jenni Matz’ RYE COALITION: THE STORY OF THE HARD LUCK FIVE (2014), a documentary following the career of the ‘90s hard rock/post-hardcore band at 8:30pm! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ! It’s a night of rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s with The Sly Dog Band! Frankly my dears, we do give a damn, so get your Scarlett O’Hara fix at the Central Library in Fulton County with their 75th Anniversary screening of Victor Fleming’s classic, GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) at 12pm! And don’t shoot your eye out at the Charles D. Switzer Library in Marietta during their screening of Bob Clark’s holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at 6pm!

Tuesday, December 16

The Earl delivers a night of lonesome cowboy blues and rockin’ folk with Ben Trickey, Rick Dang and The Wayward Souls! It’s a night of ‘90s alt-rock at Smith’s Olde Bar with Bush and Twin Atlantic! Get alternative with Ed Roland and his friends during their Holiday Show at Eddie’s Attic! Get folksy, Russian-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Balalaika Fantasie! It’s a night of Chevy Chase shenanigans at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s “Home for the Holidays” screening of Jeremiah S. Chechick’s holiday comedy classic, NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) at 7:30! Get classic, holiday-style with Frank Capra’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) at CineBistro at Town Brookhaven during their “Cineclassics 2014” screening at 6:30! Muppet mayhem ensues at the Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library during their screening of Brian Hensen’s THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992) at 3pm! Joe McGuinness delivers a night of roots and Americana at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets the blues with Bob Page! And The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 17

It’s a night of holiday Big Band boogie at the Georgia Ensemble Theatre with Joe Gransden’s “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” performance, featuring his 16-piece Big Band! It’s a night of ‘70s psych rock at The Earl with New Madrid, Kool Kats Spirits and the Melchizedek Children and the Reverends! Hans Solo hilarity ensues at the Highland Inn Ballroom as SCENE MISSING presents their Hans Shot Firstmas event at 9pm, featuring comedy, skits and writing based on Star Wars films! Smith’s Olde Bar rocks out and gets funky with the Miraculous Mandarins, Scofflaw and Phrenic! Get jazzy at Elliott Street Pub with Sal Gentile! Get adventurous with Dread Pirate Roberts at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) during their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 7pm! Get your classic rockin’ blues fix with Fleetwood Mac at Phillips Arena! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! It’s your second chance to catch Ed Roland and his friends during their Holiday Show at Eddie’s Attic! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night of blues to psycho-grass with Joe Craven! Get funky at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with The Georgia Flood! Blues it up Chicago/West Coast-style with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s a night of Chevy Chase shenanigans at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s “Home for the Holidays” screening of Jeremiah S. Chechick’s holiday comedy classic, NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) at 7:30! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, December 18

Beware all you naughty children! Krampus is coming to town at 7 Stages, during their 5th Annual Krampus Xmas holiday rock ‘n’ roll show featuring the Little Five Points Rock Star Orchestra, Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South, Sadie Hawkins, terrifying puppets and more, running through Dec. 20! Or get jazzy at The Strand Theatre with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and T.T. Mahoney during their unique tribute to Vince Guaraldi’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” with Chad Shivers & the Silent Knights opening with the Beach Boys Christmas album! Or get really retro at the Atlanta History Center during their Candlelight Nights event, offering a candlelit stroll transporting you through the pioneer days, the Civil War and the ‘30s and each era’s Christmas traditions. Rock out at Terminal West during Mark Carroll’s 11th Annual Toy Drive featuring Yacht Rock Revue! Rock out at The Star Bar during their Rock & Roll Christmas Blackout! Join in on the holiday hi-jinx at The Plaza Theater as their Cineprov group delivers their “Ruining Childhood Memories Holiday Show” at 7:30! It’s a hootenanny of rockin’ proportions at The Earl with Frontier Ruckus and Justin Kinkel-Schuster! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with Time Sawyer! Bluegrass it up at the Tabernacle with Trampled by Turtles and the modern-era Wanda Jackson, Nikki Lane! Or get your alt-country punk fix at Elliott Street Pub with The Punknecks! Catch Dames Aflame dancer and cabaret gal, Josette Pimenta (see our Kool Kat feature soon!) singin’ her heart out at Jungle Atlanta! Get rockin’, roots-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Donna Hopkins! Heather Luttrell delivers a night of Americana and blues at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Cosmoknox, Clockwork and Blackfox! Or get your jugtime Dixieland fix in the Music Room with the Rumpke Mountain Boys and The Jugtime Ragband! Eddie’s Attic delivers an evening with Patterson Hood (Drive-by Truckers)! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, December 19

Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer, T.T. Mahoney and Robby Handley bring you their 7th annual A Charlie Brown Christmas Tribute at The Earl with Small Wreath Actions’ garage-tinged Rock n Roll Christmas Extravaganza, through Dec. 20! It’s a garage rock revival at Terminal West with The Whigs and Kool Kats Gringo Star! Kathleen Bertrand delivers a night of jazzy holiday classics at the High Museum during their “Friday Night Music Remix” event! It’s a night of garage/prog rock at WonderRoot with Air Wolves, Glen Iris, Bold Ashes and Slow Chrome! Rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Stacktone Slims, Time Sawyer, Back on the Freakout and House of Thomas in the Atlanta Room. Or get funky in the Music Room with All the Locals, Navajo Joe and Forje! Celebrate 45 years of the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” with Abbey Road Live! at the Variety Playhouse! Boogie down jingle-style at Mary’s during their Mary XXX-Mess Party! Get groovy at the Red Light Café with Markey Blue and Garrett Freireich! It’s a night of muddy Mississippi blues at the Buckhead Theatre with the North Mississippi Allstars and Larkin Poe! Catch Suzy Bogguss, the female Merle Haggard, at the Red Clay Theatre during her Christmas Concert! Spend the evening with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and their “A Very Merry Pops!” event, featuring the Atlanta All-City Chorus and catch a sighting of The Grinch, running through Dec. 20! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles get revved up at The Alamo in Newnan! Get folksy at the Crimson Moon Café with the Solstice Sisters and Out of the Rain! Swank it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet as they deliver a night of Django gypsy jazz at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with Sandra Hall & the Shadows! Tom Holland & the Shuffle Kings blues it up at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Northside Tavern delivers a night of the blues with Stoney Brooks! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, December 20

Kool Kat “Big Mike” Geier brings his Kingsized Holiday Jubilee & Toy Drive to the Variety Playhouse at 8pm! You won’t want to miss his Kingsized rock n roll orchestra and the glitzy glamorous Dames Aflame! And it’s your last chance to catch Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s tribute to Vince Guaraldi’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” at The Earl! Or rock out in Gainesville with Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures at the Mule Camp Tavern during their “true nightmare before Christmas” show featuring Jim Sharman’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 9pm! ATL Collective, along with Kool Kat Ruby Velle, Grant Green Jr., and more present a “A James Brown Funky Christmas” at Terminal West! It’s a night of Appalachian folk and Americana at the Red Light Café with Waller, Waits & Co. and Wade Sapp! Get geeky at Philips Arena with Marvel Universe Live, featuring superheroes and an action-packed arena extravaganza! Jump across the pond to Smith’s Olde Bar as they present Please PleaseRock Me and Indianapolis Jones! Dear Mr. Peasant delivers a night of Americana at Elliott Street Pub with Husky Burnette! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for EG Kight! Or make your way to the Charles D. Switzer Library in Marietta for their screening of Chuck Jones/Ben Washam’s classic, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (1966) at 3pm! The Powder Springs Public Library screens Michael Anderson’s AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (1956) at 3pm! And explore Latino music through film at the Atlanta History Center with their “American Sabor Movie” screenings featuring Luis Valdez’ LA BAMBA (1987) at 2pm! Or get a second helping of Bob Clark’s holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at the Flat Shoals Library in Decatur at 1pm! Holly Pollyea delivers her funky folk at Steve’s Live Music followed by Red Wine Jam and High Tea! It’s a night of ‘60s covers and more at The Family Dog with the Elegant Bachelors and Parker Smith! Spend the evening with Markey Blue at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Selwyn Birchwood gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Revue! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 21

It’s a rompin’ stompin’ hootenanny at The Earl with Chickens and Pigs and their 9th Annual Keith Richards Birthday Bash! Pallookaville delivers their 2nd Annual Holiday Sing-A-Long with Puddles Pity Party and Big Foot, featuring Matthew Kaminski and the mighty organ at 8pm! Get jazzy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs during their “A Diva Christmas” event, featuring Deb Bowman, Audrey Shakir, Karla Harris and Theresa Hightower! Or doo-wop it up at Atlanta Symphony Hall with Under the Streetlamp! Celebrate the holidays with Joe Gransden’s Big Band Holiday Show at Eddie’s Attic with special guest, Francine Reed! The Family Dog dishes up a Charlie Brown Extravaganza with the David Ellington Trio and Kayla Taylor! Stomp on down to Terminal West for their 4th Annual Holiday Hootenanny, featuring Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton, Papa Mali, Delta Moon, Grant Green Jr., Deep Blue Sun and more! Or bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch featuring D.B.A! And it’s your last chance to get adventurous with Dread Pirate Roberts at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) during their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 2pm!

Ongoing

Callanwolde Fine Arts Center’s exhibit, Vintage Coca-Cola Santas, featuring 14 original oil paintings by Haddon Sundblom in 1931 for The Coca-Cola Company, sleighs through Dec. 16! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Strand Theatre’s Lumiere Piano Bar & Lounge, featuring classic silent films quietly flickering in the background, accompanied by a live pianist and tasty cocktails, runs through Dec. 20! (LAST CHANCE!)

Serenbe Playhouse presents their adaptation of “Snow Queen” through Dec. 21! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Strand Theatre’s “A Christmas Tradition” song and dance revue runs through Dec. 21! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Gwinnett Ballet Theatre presents “The Nutcracker” at the Gwinnett Performing Arts Center through Dec. 21! (LAST CHANCE!)

Shakespeare Tavern’s Atlanta Shakespeare Company presents Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 23!

The Alliance Theatre gets retro Dickens-style with their “A Christmas Carol”, getting Scrooge-y through Dec. 24!

Center for Puppetry Arts adapts Larry Roemer’s classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964) through Dec. 28!

The Fox Theatre and the Atlanta Ballet present their holiday tradition of “The Nutcracker”, running through Dec. 28!

Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) exhibits 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair through Jan. 4!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Fueling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Hey all you fabulous retro kiddies! Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow this ho-ho holiday season! We’ve got cult holiday flicks to Halloween in December to a whole ‘lotta of honky-tonk, blues and rock n roll! If you’re lookin’ for a thrill and the weather’s got you down, get off that couch, put on your dancin’ shoes and get Retro!

Monday, December 8

Rock on down to 529 and glam it up with Del Venicci, Muuy Biien, Friend Roulette and Tiny Hazard! Or for a night of spoken work punk rock and Lou Reed’esque goodness, make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Hamell on Trial and Alex & Todd! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste ofBumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ! Bill Sheffield delivers the blues at Blind Willie’s! And don’t forget, The Plaza Theater is screening Frank Capra’s holiday classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946), running through Dec. 11, along with Chris Columbus’ ‘90s holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) through Dec. 10!

Tuesday, December 9

Splatter Cinema and Enjoy the Film (Kool Kat Ben Ruder) splatter you with a sleighing good time at Cinevision Screening Room with their 35mm screening of Joe Dante’s mischievous sequel, GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (1990) at 8pm! And don’t forget to come early for some chilling lobby shenanigans! Or let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South seduce their way into your naughty (or nice?) little hearts at the Red Light Café at their Tease Tuesday: Naughty or Nice Edition, with performances by Tippy Tapage, Ada Manzhart, Mickie Sinn and more! For a night of vintage swagger, blues it up at Blind Willie’s with Atlanta Boogie! It’s a night of avant-jazz and funk at Atlanta Symphony Hall with Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood! Punk it up at 529 with Dinos Boys, Dirty Fences and the Moreland Wrecks! Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar deliver a night of traditional roots ‘n’ blues at Eddie’s Attic! You’ll shoot your eye out at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s “Home for the Holidays” screening of Bob Clark’s holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS STORY(1983) at 7:30! Or catch the film at CineBistro at Town Brookhaven during their “Cineclassics 2014” screening at 6:30! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets down and dirty blues-style with Lola! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 10

Get your ‘70s dive fix at The Earl with Barreracudas, Hecter’s Pets and JP5! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza,featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo gets down and dirty with a whole lotta jazz, blues and southern soul at Blind Willie’s! Get funky at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with TheGeorgia Flood! Get folksy with Doria Roberts at Eddie’s Attic! Stomp down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Freelance Ruckus, Blood on the Harp and Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen! Spend an evening of holiday prog-rock with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the Gwinnett Performing Arts Center! Get funky at the Elliott Street Pub with their Funk, Soul & R&B night! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get holiday-retro at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s “Home for the Holidays” screening of Bob Clark’s holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS STORY(1983) at 7:30! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, December 11

The Earl delivers a night of raucous rock ‘n’ roll with Manic, Rapturous Grief, Tiger! Tiger! and Brawful! Get jazzy at the Variety Playhouse with a Peter White Christmas, featuring Rick Braun and Mindi Abair! Get funky at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Dyn-O-Mite! Smith’s Olde Bar gets rock ‘n’ rootsy with Enter the Haggis and Mitch Haney! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra tells the iconic story of Christmas with 400 musicians during their “Christmas with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra” event, running through Dec. 13! Make your way to The Strand Theatre for Marietta’s New Pops Holiday Concert on the Square event at 7pm! Or let Kool Kat David Richardson, a.k.a. “Baby Doll Schultz”, et al decide if you’ve been naughty or nice at Legendary Children’s Unholy Night party at the Masquerade! Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghost Rider’s Car Club rocks out at the Clermont Lounge! Twinkle toe on down to the Fox Theatre as the Atlanta Ballet presents their holiday tradition of “The Nutcracker”, running through Dec. 28! It’s a night of bluegrass and Americana at the Red Light Café with Johnny Campbell & the Bluegrass Drifters and Wild Hands! Eddie’s Attic delivers an evening with Patterson Hood (Drive-by Truckers)! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Delifor their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, December 12

The Star Bar is the Kat’s meow tonight with their Benefit for Greg Germani event, featuring a rockin’ musical lineup with Kool Kat Julea Thomerson spinning old-time country western records, Deke Dickerson, Kool Kat Cletis & His City Cousins, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, The Deja Bluegrass Band, Jay Murphree & Rodeo Twister, Slim Chance & the Convicts, The Wheel Knockers and more (if you can’t rock out, you can always donate here)! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Speakeasy Electroswing Atlanta event with guest DJ Bouncyhouse and sultry performances by Jenna Luca, Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Sadie Hawkins and more!

Eddie’s Attic hosts Grocery on Home’s rockin’ folksy holiday party, featuring Jared & Amber, Kappy Arnold, Marshall Ruffin, Lonnie Holley and Julia Haltigan! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Radiolucent, The Higher Choir and Blake Rainey & His Demons! Get some soul and neo-tropical funk at Terminal West with The Shadowboxers, Adron and Weisshund! Three Quarter Ale delivers a night of folksy Celtic Christmas rock with Knightsong at The Shakespeare Tavern! For a night of rockin’ soul, make your way to the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center for Diane Durrett! The Plaza Theater screens Jamie Keach’s GLEN CAMPBELL: I’LL BE ME (2014), documenting the life of the legendary country star! Shimmy ‘n’ shake on down to The Jungle Club for their Red & White Burlesque Ball at 10pm! Folk it up at Steve’s Live Music with Rachel Baiman, Caroline Spence, Vickie Vaughn and The Pussy Willows! Vinyl delivers their “I Love the ‘90s Showcase”! Rock on down to the Red Clay Theatre for an evening with the Randall Bramblett Band! The Sundogs put on their Tom Petty Show at Smith’s Olde Bar with Sugarfoot! Get folksy with Family & Friends under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event while sippin’ a few cocktails! Blues it up with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with Sandra Hall & the Shadows! It’s a night of classic rock with Hott With Harry Leggs at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! You won’t want to miss dueling pianos with Eddie Tigner and Lola at the Northside Tavern! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, December 13

Rock out for a great cause at The Star Bar with their Toys for Tots show featuring Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghost Rider’s Car Club, Bully, Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters, Vito Romeo, Space Giants and more! Or rock on down to Hell and support WRAS Album 88.5 at the Masquerade with their counter-culture rock ‘n’ roll party, Pandemonium, featuring a rockin’ party with non-stop glam rock, circus performances with the Imperial OPA Circus and more! Catch a wave to Kavarna for their Southern Surf Stomp Christmas edition featuring Chad Shivers & the Silent Knights performing the Beach Boys and The Ventures’ Christmas albums with Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers! Shimmy on down to Jerry Farber’s Side Door for Kool Kat Kitty Love’s Cheeky Belles Burlesque, Jingle Belles Rock event, with performances by Kitty Love, Angelica Vice, JudyAnne Foxe, Valkyrie Jones and more! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a night of furry faces and rockin’ tunes at their Battle of the Beards event, featuring Swank Sinatra and freak show performances!

It’s a retro cinema bonanza this week! The Muppets invade the Midtown Art Cinema with their free screening (with food donation) of Brian Henson’s holiday classic, THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992) at 10am! Get mischievous holiday-style at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Joe Dante’s GREMLINS (1984) at 7:30pm! Spend an evening with Jack Skellington at the Center for Puppetry Arts with their screening of Henry Selick’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) at 7pm! Or make your way to the Charles D. Switzer Library in Marietta for their screening of Jack Donohue’s classic, BABES IN TOYLAND (1961) at 3pm! The Powder Springs Public Library screens Ken Hughes’ CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968) at 3pm! And explore Latino music through film at the Atlanta History Center with their “American Sabor Movie” screenings featuring Gregory Nava’s SELENA (1997) at 2pm!

For a night of retro rock, make your way to 529 for The Rock*A*Teens, Warehouse and Small Reactions! Experience a southern Christmas at Academy Theatre with their 15th annual “An Atlanta Christmas” running through Dec. 14! Rev down to the Dixie Tavern for a night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Get your smooth Christmas fix at the Variety Playhouse with Yacht Rock Revue! It’s a ‘70s reunion at Steve’s Live Music with Acropolis! Julia Haltigan delivers a night of antique Americana pop at Grocery on Home! Atlanta Rhythm Section delivers two rockin’ shows at Eddie’s Attic! Put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! The Villain Family delivers a night of garage country at The Family Dog! Boogie on down to Hottie Hawgs BBQ for their Saturday Night Fever event! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets down and dirty blues-style with Lola! Blues it up at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with Tas Cru! The Northside Tavern delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Ike Stubblefield! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Francine Reed & the Shadows! The Hollidays deliver some rhythm and soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 14

Brunch it up at Pallookaville with a holiday puppet show put on by David Stephens and All Hands Productions at 9:30am! Or bluegrass on down to Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch featuring Honeywood! It’s a night of folk jazz at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Lilac Wine! Lola gets in the spirit of the holidays at the Northside Tavern with her Annual Toy Drive! Stomp down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Jonathan Byrd & the Pickup Cowboys! And get jazzy holiday-style at Atlanta Symphony Hall with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Cecile Mclorin Salvant!

Ongoing

Ann Jackson Gallery in Roswell exhibits “The Art of Dr. Seuss” through Dec. 12! (LAST CHANCE!)

Callanwolde Fine Arts Center’s exhibit, Vintage Coca-Cola Santas, featuring 14 original oil paintings by Haddon Sundblom in 1931 for The Coca-Cola Company, sleighs through Dec. 16!

The Strand Theatre’s Lumiere Piano Bar & Lounge, featuring classic silent films quietly flickering in the background, accompanied by a live pianist and tasty cocktails, runs through Dec. 20!

Serenbe Playhouse presents their adaptation of “Snow Queen” through Dec. 21!

The Strand Theatre’s “A Christmas Tradition” song and dance revue runs through Dec. 21!

The Gwinnett Ballet Theatre presents “The Nutcracker” at the Gwinnett Performing Arts Center through Dec. 21!

Shakespeare Tavern’s Atlanta Shakespeare Company presents Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 23!

The Alliance Theatre gets retro Dickens-style with their “A Christmas Carol”, getting Scrooge-y through Dec. 24!

Center for Puppetry Arts adapts Larry Roemer’s classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964) through Dec. 28!

The Fox Theatre and the Atlanta Ballet present their holiday tradition of “The Nutcracker”, running through Dec. 28!

Museum of Design Atlanta(MODA) exhibits 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair through Jan. 4!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Fueling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Baby, it’s cold outside and the holidays are in full swing! Retro Atlanta is shakin’ with all the rockin’ shindigs your jilted jolly little hearts could ever want! So, baby, get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, December 1

Get jolly and festive retro-style at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center during their Vintage Coca-Cola Santa exhibit, featuring 14 original oil paintings by Haddon Sundblom in 1931 for The Coca-Cola Company, sleighing through Dec. 16! Get Hollywood historical with Dr. Matthew Bernstein of Emory’s Department of Film and Media Studies, as he holds a lecture detailing the GONE WITH THE WIND premiere in Atlanta at 7:30pm at Emory’s White Hall. Or spend the holidays with Chevy Chase at the Charles D. Switzer Library in Marietta with their screening of Jeremiah S. Chechik’s holiday classic, NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) at 6pm! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! And boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!

Tuesday, December 2

It’s a night of bluegrass and gypsy jazz at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Smokey’s Farmland Band! Or stomp over to Eddie’s Attic for a night with the Judge Talford Band! Chevy Chase-style holiday shenanigans go down at CineBistro at Town Brookhaven during their “Cineclassics 2014” screening of Jeremiah S. Checkik’s holiday classic, NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) at 6:30pm! Or get into a little holiday mischief during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s “Home for the Holidays” screening of Chris Columbus’ HOME ALONE (1990) at 7:30! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets the blues with Bob Page! Get jazzy with Kelley O’Neal at Gladys Knight’s Chicken & Waffles! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with KoolKat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 3

Rock out at The Earl with The Blind Shake, Wymyns Prysyn and Glen Iris! It’s a night of flamenco and bossa nova at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Cristian Puig! Emory Arts’ delivers their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s BLIND CHANCE (1981) at 7:30pm in White Hall! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza,featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Get jazzy with Dave Koz & Friends during his Christmas Tour 2014 at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Take a trip to the ‘40s with Ralphie and his coveted Red Ryder B.B. gun during Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth) screening of Bob Clark’s holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at 7:30pm! Or make your way to the Wesley Chapel-William C. Brown Library in Decatur for their screening of Robert Iscove’s ROGER & HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA (1997) at 6pm! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets down and dirty blues-style with Lola! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get holiday-retro, ‘90s style at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s “Home for the Holidays” screening of Chris Columbus’ HOME ALONE (1990) at 7:30! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, December 4

It’s a night of rockin’ punk harkening back to the old-school at The Star Bar with Air Wolves, Cadillac Junkies, The Aggravated and The Sideburners! Or get your rock fix with a twist at Terminal West with the Adrian Belew Power Trio! Blues it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with TabBenoit and the AJ Ghent Band! It’s Santa vs. Satan with RiffTrax Live: K. Gordon Murray’s SANTA CLAUS (1959) screenings at Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta), Perimeter Pointe 10 and Hollywood Stadium 24 at 8pm! Spend the evening with Tiny Tim at the Shakespeare Tavern as the Atlanta Shakespeare Company presents Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 23! Or experience the classic tale of loyalty, redemption and love at the Serenbe Playhouse with their world premiere production and Rachel Teagle’s adaptation of “Snow Queen” running through Dec. 21! Get jazzy with Chuck Loeb (Fourplay) at the SuiteFood Lounge! Join in on the hi-jinks at The Plaza Theateras their Cineprov group riff’s Richard Donner’saction classic, LETHAL WEAPON (1987) at 7:30! Tom Hill & the Midnight Suns rock out at the Clermont Lounge! Eddie’s Attic delivers an evening with Patterson Hood (Drive-by Truckers)! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Delifor their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, December 5

Get rocked and shake it up at The Star Bar with the Legendary Shackshakers, Whiskey Shivers and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah! Get revved up holiday-style with the one and only Brian Setzer Orchestra at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with special guests, The RecordCompany! And then make your way to the Diesel Filling Station for Kool Kat Rev. Andy’s Unofficial Brian Setzer After Party with a rock ‘n’ roll throwdown! It’s a night of mischief and magical mayhem at the Masquerade with Markster Con’s Atlanta Wizard’s Ball, featuring rockin’ tunes by Radio Cult, aerialists and a whole lotta wicked shenanigans! Get nostalgic at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Frank Capra’s holiday classic, IT’SA WONDERFUL LIFE (1946), running through Dec. 11! Emory Arts’ delivers their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING(1987) at 7:30pm in White Hall! David Benoit pays tribute to Charlie Brown with his jazzy renditions of Vince Guaraldi’s Christmas classics at the Ferst Center at 8pm! Or shake a holiday tail feather at The Strand Theatre during their “A Christmas Tradition” song and dance revue every weekend through Dec. 21! Make your way to the Ann Jackson Gallery in Roswell for their “The Art of Dr. Seuss” exhibit, featuring Ted Geisel’s unknown paintings and sculptures, with live appearances by the Cat in the Hat and The Grinch, through Dec. 12! For a night of dirty rock ‘n’ roll, make your way to The Earl for Nashville Pussy, Valiant Thorr and the Night Terrors! Get your southern-fried soul and funk fix and groove on down to The Family Dog for Secondhand Swagger! Shimmy on down to Center Stage for the Clubesque: A Modern Cabaretevent! Steve’s Live Music delivers a night of Americana and blues with Heather Luttrell! Get gritty at the Crimson Moon Café with Blue Roads! Blues it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with night two of TabBenoit and the AJ Ghent Band! Blues it up with Victor Wainwright at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down and dirty at the Northside Tavern! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, December 6

Get ‘80s retro at Vinyl with Pop-Up X-Mix 2014 featuring Electric Avenue, The Love Willows, Goldwing, Aerobics Cube and James Hall! It’s a night of rockin’ electro-industrial nostalgia at the Buckhead Theatre with founding alumni Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly (FLA), Haujobb and Youth Code! Or get your early ‘80s thrash metal and shock rock fix at the Masquerade with GWAR, Corrosion of Conformity and American Sharks! For a night of ‘60s garage rock and punk, make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar for The White Animals and Lions & Liars! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for the 6th Annual Y’All Tide Celebration with The Whiskey Gentry, The Dappled Grays and Seven Handle Circus! Skate on by the DooGallery for their 10th Annual Deck the Walls event at 9pm featuring skate deck art with proceeds going to The A-Skate Foundationfor Autism, and a rockin’ musical line-up with the Moreland Wrecks, The Salts, 30 Year Old Women from Mars and more! Rock out at The Star Bar with the El Caminos, M.O.T.Oand Pretty Vacant! For a night of Dixie jazz and old-time country western swing, honky-tonk on down to the Red Light Café for The VaudeVillain’s Ugly Christmas Sweater Party and CD Release show with Lindsay Petsch and 9 String Theory! Frankly my dears, we do give a damn, so make your way to Emory for the Department of Film Studies’ screening of Fleming, Cukor and Woods’ classic, GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) at 1pm! Or head over to the Charles D. Switzer Library in Marietta for their screening of Emile Ardolino’s THE NUTCRACKER (1993) at 3pm! The Powder Springs Public Library screens Alexander Hall’s Shirley Temple classic, LITTLE MISS MARKER (1934) at 3pm! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with Michelle Malone at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs. Get jazzy roots-style with The Blind Boys of Alabama and special guest, FrancineReed at Atlanta Symphony Hall! It’s a night of Cramps-inspired punk at Kavarna with Air Wolves! Get your ‘90s alt-rock fix at the Tabernacle with Weezer! The Gwinnett Ballet Theatre presents “The Nutcracker” at the Gwinnett Performing Arts Center through Dec. 21! It’s a night of mountain folk rock and Americana at The Family Dog with Pioneer Chicken Stand! Groove on down to Hottie Hawgs BBQ ‘cause it’s Disco Night! Get your Australian blues and roots fix at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with Harper &Midwest Kind! Blues it up with Albert White at the Northside Tavern! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 7

Hey all you miscreants and mischievous souls! Rock out at the Masquerade with the Misfits, Kool Kats, TheCasket Creatures, The Attack, Burns Like Fireand Dasher! Get your flamenco fix at the Red Light Café with Antonio Granjero, Francisco Orozco, Cristian Puigand Julie Galle Baggenstoss! Ben Watt delivers a night of folk jazz at Eddie’s Attic! Nothing says it’s the holidays like cookies and homes on wheels! So make your way to the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club (EAYC) for their 9th Annual Gingerbread Trailer Park competition at 6pm! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for their Bluegrass Brunch with Rye Baby! And rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event, delivering a night of ‘60s and ‘70s covers!

Ongoing

Ann Jackson Gallery in Roswell exhibits “The Art of Dr. Seuss” through Dec. 12!

Callanwolde Fine Arts Center’s exhibit, Vintage Coca-Cola Santas, featuring 14 original oil paintings by Haddon Sundblom in 1931 for The Coca-Cola Company, sleighs through Dec. 16!

The Strand Theatre’s Lumiere Piano Bar & Lounge, featuring classic silent films quietly flickering in the background, accompanied by a live pianist and tasty cocktails, runs through Dec. 20!

Serenbe Playhouse presents their adaptation of “Snow Queen” through Dec. 21!

The Strand Theatre’s “A Christmas Tradition” song and dance revue runs through Dec. 21!

The Gwinnett Ballet Theatre presents “The Nutcracker” at the Gwinnett Performing Arts Center through Dec. 21!

Shakespeare Tavern’s Atlanta Shakespeare Company presents Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 23!

The Alliance Theatre gets retro Dickens-style with their “A Christmas Carol”, getting Scrooge-y through Dec. 24!

Center for Puppetry Arts adapts Larry Roemer’s classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964) through Dec. 28!

Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) exhibits 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair through Jan. 4!

The MariettaMuseum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at theDiesel Fueling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Nightat 10pm, every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Hey all you Retro Atlanta kiddies! Start some new holiday traditions this year and let Retro Atlanta guide the way! Whether you’re lookin’ to escape or just needing to get out and breathe, we’ve got a cornucopia of holiday rockin’ fun lined up that will fill you to the brim with giddy! So, come on out and get Retro rockin’ holiday-style!

Monday, November 24

Don’t let the Monday blues keep you down! 529 gets rockin’ with The Gotobeds, Onchi and The Marrows! Rock out with Freddy Mercury at Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 as they deliver QUEEN ROCK MONTREAL 1981 CONCERT (1981) at 7pm! Or spend the day with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas at the Charles D. Switzer Library in Marietta at their screening of Burt Kennedy’s THE WAR WAGON (1967)! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with Barrelhouse Bob Page! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 25

Spend an evening with Eric Johnson (rockin’ since ’69) and Mike Stern during their Eclectic Guitar show, bringing together rock and jazz guitar at the Variety Playhouse! The Alliance Theatre gets retro Dickens-style while celebrating 25 years of their “A Christmas Carol” performances, Scrooge-ing through Dec. 24! Or swing those hips on down to the Fox Theatre for “Dirty Dancing”, cha-cha’ing through Nov. 30! Rock out at Eddie’s Attic with Ed Roland & the Sweet Tea Project! The Hollidays deliver some rhythm and soul at Blind Willie’s! Get adventurous with Harrison Ford at CineBistro at Town Brookhaven during their “Cineclassics 2014” screening of Steven Spielberg’s, INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK(1981) at 6:30pm! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 26

It’s a night of Turkey-Eve ‘70s soft rock shenanigans with Yacht Rock Revue at the Fox Theatre! The Family Dog delivers a night of groovy psychedelic rock with Gimme Hendrix! Get jazzy with Frank Barham at the Elliott Street Pub! Get funky with Zack Deputy at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Slip on into some ‘90s rockin’ blues at Atlanta Symphony Hall with Melissa Etheridge! The Electromatics deliver a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 27

If the family’s too much, rock out retro Turkey-Day style! Bring your appetite and make your way to The Earl for BoogadaBoogadaBoogada’s rockin’ Screeching Weasel tribute and Salts! And get a second helping of turkey with our pals at Pallookaville during their 2nd Annual Orphan’s Feast at 6pm! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 28

Escape Black Friday at The Star Bar as they rock out ‘70s and ‘80s style with Rumours (Fleetwood Mac tribute), Departure (Journey tribute) and Ziggy Stardust (Bowie tribute)! Get Sci-Fi retro with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and their POPS: Sci-Fi Spectacular, featuring their renditions of scores from STAR WARS, E.T. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS and more, led by Conductor Jack Everly and narrated by the one and only, George Takei, running through Nov. 29! Have a haughty laugh at the Alliance Theatre during the world premiere of Dad’s Garage Theatre Company’s “It’s a Wonderful Laugh”, parodying the classic with a little raunchy humor and adult shenanigans, through Dec. 20! Denim Arcade with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Rock Vault deliver a night of rockin’ covers from the ‘70s through the ‘90s at Craze Tavern in Duluth! Punk down to 529 for a night with GHB, NOTS and Zoners! Swing on by Rays on the River for an evening with Joe Gransden! It’s a hard rock life at The Plaza Theater as they screen Bob Nalbandian’s INSIDE METAL: THE PIONEERS OF LOS ANGELES HARD ROCK & METAL (2014), a documentary about the founding fathers of the genre! It’s a night of retro rock at the Red Light Café with their annual Glenn Phillips Day-After Thanksgiving Show, joined by Cindy Wilson of the B-52s! Folk it up at Eddie’s Attic with Ellis Paul’s CD release show, with special guest Chris Trapper! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a rowdy night with the Darnell Boys, Caitlin Andrews and Lily Rose Williamson! The Crimson Moon Café delivers a cello/guitar eclectic orchestra with Montana Skies! Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month! Get ready for the holidays at the Gwinnett Center during the Northeast Atlanta Ballet’s presentation of “The Nutcracker” through Nov. 30! Get folksy with Family & Friends and Faye Webster at Vinyl! Get funky with Biscuit Miller & the Mix at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of rockin’ soul and blues with Rumblefish! Make your way to the Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library and catch Carroll Ballard’s classic, THE BLACK STALLION(1979) at 1:30pm! Blues it up at Northside Tavern with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns! Blind Willie’s gets bluesy with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 29

The Earl delivers a night of ‘90s alt rock and ‘70s power pop infused rock with Cracker and The Head! Get your garage rock fix at the Masquerade with Rad-isaurus Rex, The Mumzees and Femignome! It’s a hard-knock life at the Charles D. Switzer Library in Marietta, so come on by for their screening of John Huston’s classic, ANNIE(1982) at 3pm! Or make your way to the Powder Springs Public Library in Powder Springs for their screening of Vincente Minnelli’s MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) at 3pm! Get funky with Count M’Butu and The Mar-Tans at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock out at the Tabernacle with The 1975, CRUISR and Young Rising Sons! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs pays tribute to Fleetwood Mac with White Winged Dove! Folk it up at the Variety Playhouse with Shawn Mullins! Get your second helping of Ellis Paul and Chris Trapper at Eddie’s Attic! Honky-tonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Convoy, Owner of the Sun and WWAYLON& the Real Americans! Get folksy at the Crimson Moon Café with Emerald Rose! Coverboy delivers a night of rockin’ covers at Front Page News in Midtown! Get the blues at Blind Willie’s with Big Bill Morganfield! Swagger on over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night of Kansas City and West Coast blues with Atlanta Boogie! Blues it up at Northside Tavern with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 30

Get your hellish holiday shopping done early while supporting neighborhood artists at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club (EAYC) during their “Lovecrafts: Treasures from the Deep” event from 2 to 7pm! The hills are alive with Robert Wise’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) during their matinee screening at 2pm! Get your second helping of Cracker at The Earl! The Kris Youmans Band bluegrasses it up at Smith’s Olde Bar during their Bluegrass Brunch! Eliot Bronson delivers a little garage, polka and folk at the Crimson Moon Café! And blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Tony Bryant!

Ongoing

The Strand Theatre’s Lumiere Piano Bar & Lounge, featuring classic silent films quietly flickering in the background, accompanied by a live pianist and tasty cocktails, runs through Dec. 20!

TheAlliance Theatre gets retro Dickens-style with their “A Christmas Carol”, getting Scrooge-y through Dec. 24!

Center for Puppetry Arts adapts Larry Roemer’s classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964) through Dec. 28!

Museum of Design Atlanta(MODA) exhibits 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair through Jan. 4!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

HepCat’s Hopgets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafiascreenings at theDiesel Fueling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Nightat 10pm, every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast ofLips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Forget the daily grind, get off the couch and take a peek at what we have in store for all you Kool Kats and Kittens! Let Retro Atlanta fill you with a week’s worth of swingin’ good times! From vintage, fuzzed out rock ‘n’ roll to steamy burlesque to classic cinema galore! It’ll be a bloody good time, so get out and get retro!

Monday, November 17

Get funky and boogie down with Jeff Sipe Trio, The Flying Oatsmen and The Mar-Tans at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to the Lefont Theatre for their 30th Anniversary restoration screening of Daniel Schmid’s TOSCA’S KISS (1985) at 7pm! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! It’s a night of red hot blues at Blind Willie’s with Funky Bluester! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 18

Rock out with a night of new-wave and synth pop at the Masquerade with The Birthday Massacre and New Years Day in Heaven! Or get your dirty rock ‘n’ roll fix in Purgatory with Thelma & The Sleaze, The Lamentations, Weary Heads and Dendera Bloodbath! Get holiday ready, retro-style at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954), during their “Home for the Holidays” series at 7:30! Get filled with three decades of R.E.M. at Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of Alexander Young’s documentary, R.E.M. BY MTV (2014)! Get artsy folk-style at The Goat Farm Arts Center with their screening of Ava Leigh Stewart’s PARADISE GARDENS: HOWARD FINSTER’S LEGACY (2014) at 7pm! The Earl delivers a night of post-punk industrial with Death In June, rockin’ out since the early ‘80s! Get the blues with a hint of folk at Eddie’s Attic with Marshall Ruffin, Kappy Arnold and The Sweeplings! Get criminal at CineBistro at Town Brookhaven with their “Cineclassics 2014” screening of Frank Darabont’s, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) at 6:30pm! Bluegrass it up at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets the blues with the Bob Page Trio! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern! And blues it up at Blind Willie’s with JP Blues!

Wednesday, November 19

Surf down to the Drunken Unicorn and get down and dirty with the Allah-Las and Tashaki Miyaki! It’s a night of giddy Gotham hi-jinks at the Highland Inn Ballroom as SCENE MISSING presents their Batlanta Forever event at 9pm, featuring comedy, skits and writing based on Batman films! Get jazzy with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with the Sweetwater Creek Bluegrass Band! Or take a trip to the jungle at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their screening of Joe Johnston’s JUMANJI (1995) at 7pm! Escape Vehicle rocks out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get some soul and funk it up at The Earl with Abby Wren & What It Is, Norman Frank & the Ghost Dance and Lindsay Appel! Emory Arts’ delivers their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Wojciech Has’ THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM (1973) at White Hall! It’s a gothic winter wonderland at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 with their AMC Classics screening of Tim Burton’s EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990) at 2pm and 7pm! Get Grinchy at the Woodruff Arts Center as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents “A Very Merry Holiday Pops” featuring holiday classics, jingling through Nov. 22! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! It’s your last chance to catch Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Home for the Holidays” series at 7:30! Get glammed out and catch Hamish Hamilton’s documentary, DAVID BOWIE IS (2014) at Midtown Art Cinema! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Cazanovas get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 20

The Star Bar gets down to the nitty gritty with two nights of Southern Culture on the Skids‘ voodoo beach party hillbilly hootenanny! Rock out at Terminal West with Blonde Redhead and People Get Ready! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at Red Light Café, so get to stompin’ with David & Valerie Mayfield! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs jams it up with the Donna Hopkins Band! It’s a night of rockin’ blues at the Red Clay Theatre with Michelle Malone, Kevn Kinney and Levi Lowrey! Get adventurous in the Colombian jungle at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ROMANCING THE STONE (1984) at 7:30pm! Get funky with a night of old-school soul and jazz at Smith’s Olde Bar with Back on the Freakout, Sam Burchfieldand Lilac Wine in the Atlanta Room! Or get down and dirty in the Music Room with Avenue of the Giants, Ledfoot Messiah and the Johnny Rebs! Get gypsy-jazzy Americana-style at Eddie’s Attic with Jared & Amber! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Take a trip down memory lane at the Aurora Theatre with their nostalgic holiday musical revue, “Christmas Canteen” jingling through Dec. 20! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 21

Hobnob with the hellacious horrorific filmmakers of the 9th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival at their opening night party at Joystick Gamebar at 8pm, which will be followed by two thrilling days (Saturday/Sunday) of short and feature-length blood splattering cinema! Shimmy down to the Academy Theatre in Hapeville for two nights of magical mischief and bawdy burly-Q as The Hysteria Machines presents their Sexpelliarmus: A Whimsical Burlesque Wizarding Revue! Or pay homage to silent films and spend a glamorous evening at The Strand Theatre’s Lumiere Piano Bar & Lounge, featuring classic silent films quietly flickering in the background, accompanied by a live pianist and tasty cocktails, running through Dec. 20! Honky-tonk it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with Gangstagrass, Megan Jean & the KFB and Grim Rooster, featuring Kool Kat Phil Stair! Get jazzy at the High Museum during their Friday Night Music Remix with the Laura Coyle Quintet! Boogie on down for Mary’s Sweet 16 party filled with music videos from the last two decades! Get folksy ‘60s-style at Eddie’s Attic with the Farewell Drifters and 10 String Symphony! Boogie on down for a free afternoon show with Southern Culture on the Skids and Atomic Boogie at The Burnt Hickory Brewery in Kennesaw followed by your second helping of Southern Culture on the Skids at The Star Bar! It’s a rock ‘n’ roll revival at Vinyl with The Howling Tongues, Modoc and Young Edison! Get your funk and disco fix at Elliott Street Pub with The 200s! Hottie Hawgs BBQ delivers a night of hill country blues with John Sosebee! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with The Great Peacock, Cute Boots and Johnny Delaware! It’s a night of rockin’ Americana at the Variety Playhouse with Justin Townes Earle and Cory Branan! Get folksy a la ‘90s at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with The Good Graces and their new vinyl release show! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! Blues it up at Northside Tavern with Stoney Brooks! Tommy Somerville & Friends get jazzy and blues it up at the Red Light Café! Blind Willie’s gets bluesy with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 22

Let the weirdly wild and bone-chilling adventure begin with day one of the 9th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival, Atlanta’s premiere horror film festival getting grotesquely gory at Fabrefaction Theatre Company! ($10/screening; $50/all-access) Or get your early ‘90s horror punk fix at the Highlander with the Spectremen’s 2014 comeback special with the Moreland Wrecks! The Earl rocks out with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s 18th Birthday Blowout, featuring a killer musical lineup with The Muffs, Beach Day and Dasher! Hey dudes! Rock out at Kavarna with their Southern Surf Stomp featuring a whole lotta surf rock with The AmpFibians, Ivan Pongracie (The Space Cossacks) and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters! Rock out with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles at Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics deliver a whole lotta ‘50s/’60s Georgia soul at The Music Room! Get classically retro at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College with The Ritz Chamber Players at 8pm! Mannheim Steamroller invades the Fox Theatre with a night of rockin’ Christmas tunes! Get the ultimate Michael Jackson tribute experience at the Variety Playhouse with Who’s Bad! Steve’s Live Music dishes out an Americana dinner showcase with Emily Kate Boyd (Billie in the Woods)! Get psychedelic and funk out with Flow Tribe and the Glen Pridgen Band in the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or for a night of blues rock and funk, make your way to the Atlanta Room for a night with David T. & Friends! Get jazzy at The Strand Theatre with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra’s Big Band, led by Sam Skelton! Get rowdy at the Red Light Café with Heyday Revival, Fuzz Face, Brandon Gunter and Indie Killed the Pop Star! Put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! Get old-school and rock out with the soul-sensation that is Stevie Wonder at Phillips Arena! Stomp down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with the Smokin’ Novas, Bill Mallonee and Muriah Rose! It’s a night of rockin’ thrashin’ ‘80s metal at the Tabernacle with Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies and Exodus! ATL Collective delivers a night of “Layla” and other assorted love songs by Derek & the Dominoes at Elliott Street Pub! Get down and dirty at The Family Dog with a Doors tribute, The Dirty Doors! Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with The Nighthawks! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack rocks out with Fat Back Deluxe! The Northside Tavern gets funky with Zydefunk! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 23

It’s day two of Atlanta’s premiere horror film festival, the 9th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival featuring a grotesque line-up of bone-chilling feature-length and short horror films at Fabrefaction Theatre Company! Or get bawdy for a cause at 7 Stages with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South’s 8th Annual Tits for Toys for Tots Burlesque Show at 7:45pm! Take a trip to the jungle at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their matinee screening of Joe Johnston’s JUMANJI (1995) at 2pm! Get brassy at Steve’s Live Music with Three Beards! Smith’s Olde Bar dishes out a Bluegrass Brunch with David & Valerie Mayfield! Karla Bonoff’s been rockin’ out since the ‘70s and will be getting folksy at the Red Clay Theatre! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at The Family Dog! Stomp on down to The Earl for the ruckus that is the Georgia Mountain String Band! And blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Tony Bryant!

Ongoing

The Strand Theatre’s Lumiere Piano Bar & Lounge, featuring classic silent films quietly flickering in the background, accompanied by a live pianist and tasty cocktails, runs through Dec. 20!

Aurora Theatre‘s nostalgic holiday musical revue, “Christmas Canteen” jingles through Dec. 20!

Center for Puppetry Arts adapts Larry Roemer’s classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964) through Dec. 28!

Museum of Design Atlanta(MODA) exhibits 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair through Jan. 4!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Fueling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta this week! We’ve got it all, from burly-Q to nostalgic film to all the rockin’ shenanigans your little vintage hearts could desire!

Monday, November 10

Spend the night with Ol’ Blue Eyes and swing on by the Georgia Ensemble Theatre for a hoppin’ night with Joe Gransden and his 16-piece band as he presents “Songs of Sinatra”! Make your way to the Lefont Theatre for their second and last screening of Billy Wilder’s FEDORA (1978) at 7pm! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Bill Sheffield delivers the blues at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 11

Shimmy on down for a night of tease and spice with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South as they warm up your naughty little hearts at the Red Light Café during their Tease Tuesday: Hot Winter’s Night edition! Gather all your misfit pals and make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their faithful adaptation of Larry Roemer’s classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964) running through Dec. 28! Or for something a bit more sinister and holiday-filled, spend the night with Bill Murray at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Richard Donner’s SCROOGED (1988), during their “Home for the Holidays” series at 7:30! It’s a rockin’ punk and bluegrass hillbilly smash-up at The Earl with O’Death, Lily & the Tigers and Joe Fletcher! Get jazzy with the Georgia Tech Jazz Ensemble during their performance of “The Great American Songbook”, delivering tunes by Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Jimmy Van Heusen at the Ferst Center! Get really retro with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” presented by the Atlanta Opera at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center, through Nov. 16! Make your way to CineBistro at Town Brookhaven for their ‘Cineclassics 2014’ screening of Amy Heckerling’s classic teen comedy, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) at 6:30pm! Spend the night with Brigitte Bardot at the Midtown Art Cinema during their screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s CONTEMPT (1963) at 7pm! Controlled Burn delivers a night of rockin’ classics at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern! And stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the Boohoo Ramblers!

Wednesday, November 12

Honky-tonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Cletis & His City Cousins with Kool Kat Cletis Reid and Peewee Moore & the Awful Dreaded Snakes in the Atlanta Room! Or get folksy in the Music Room with Mingo Fishtrap, The Tarlatans and Matthew Thomas! Get jazzy with a little psych rock and surf on the side at Terminal West with Marco Benevento and Steelism! Folk rock on down to The Music Room for a night with Cicada Rhythm, Charlie& the Foxtrots and Chase Lamondo (Radio Birds)! Get your old-school southern rock fix at the Fox Theatre with their One More for the Fans event, celebrating the songs and music of Lynard Skynard with performances by Alabama, Gregg Allman, Charlie Daniels, Peter Frampton, Blackberry Smoke, Cheap Trick and more! Kool Kat Scott Glazer & his Mojo Dojo deliver a night of blues, jazz and soul at Blind Willie’s! Emory Arts’ delivers their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Krzysztof Zanussi’s THE ILLUMINATION (1972) at White Hall! Or spend the night in Gotham City at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 during their AMC Classics screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN (1989) at 2pm and 7pm! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Last chance to catch Richard Donner’s SCROOGED (1988) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Home for the Holidays” series at 7:30! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 13

It’s a night of vintage rock ‘n’ roll at the Red Light Café with Secondhand Swagger and Major & the Monbacks! Get the Cajun blues at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Hair of the Dog! Get your garage rock fix at The Star Bar with Think Never, Ricer, Twin Trances and Hip to Death! The Goat Farm Arts Center is bringin’ back the ‘90s with The Cricket Gallery’s Cartoon Art from the ‘90s exhibit, 6pm to 10pm, running through Nov. 16! Get funky at Smith’s Olde Bar with Play on Brother and Arc & Stones! It’s a night of saucy tease and seduction at the Masquerade as the Suicide Girls deliver their Blackheart Burlesque Fall Tour! Get some old-time blues and soul at the Crimson Moon Café with The Lauren Mitchell Band! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Sweet Betty & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 14

It’s a night of Steampunk and swingin’ shenanigans at the Red Light Café with the Artifice Club & Steampunk ATLMeet-Up from 8pm to 9pm, followed by the Speakeasy Electroswing Atlanta: Cabaret edition with DJ Doctor Q, a rockin’ performance by the gypsy cabaret duo, Frenchy & the Punk (see our feature on Frenchy & the Punk here) and burly-Q heat by Lucy Purr and Candi LeCoeur! Or get dressed to the monstrous nines and boogie on down to the Masquerade for their annual Atlanta Monster Prom with costume contests, Ghoul King and Queen crowning and an all out wicked party with a hellish performance by Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures! Rock on down to The Star Bar for Jabroni Fest 2 featuring Swank Sinatra, Ganges Phalanges, Kool Kats, The Joy Kills, Spray Tan, Wicked Pretty and more! And for a haunting experience, spook on down to the Decatur Cemetery for the And So We Wandered Still event at 5pm, running through Nov. 16, with performances by Erik Thurmond, Mary Grace Phillips, Chip Epsten and Nicolette Emanuelle!

Get your punk and surf fix at 529 with Twin Tigers, Sex BBQ and Hello Cobra! It’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Night at Diesel Filling Station with Kool Kat Rev. Andy getting’ you fired up with a whole lotta rockabilly, psychobilly, old-school punk and rock ‘n’ roll! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles get revved up at the Foundry Grillworks in Newnan! It’s a night of Australian roots rock and funk at the Tabernacle with The John Butler Trio and Monica Heldal! Get your psychedelic grunge fix at The Earl with T. Hardy & the Hardknocks, Jessica Lea Mayfield and Dylan LeBlanc! Get funky at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with the Swamp Funk Quartet! Hop on by the Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art for their Martinis & Music event featuring a night of big band and swing with Douglas Cameron! Get groovy with Summer Hymns and the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event while sippin’ a few cocktails! Kool Kat Colonel Bruce Hampton rocks out to the absurd at the Northside Tavern! It’s a night of old-time blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with The Lauren Mitchell Band! EG Kight delivers a night of blues and Americana at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Sandra Hall & the Shadows! Rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Grateful Dead tribute band, Terrapin Flyer and The Hard Pans! Toucan Dubh delivers a night of Celtic folk at Java Monkey! The Geeks rock you retro-style at the L5P Front Page News! Rock out with Kool Kat VJ Anthony as he presents his New Wave 80s: Music Video Night dance party at Famous Pub! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 15

Ex-Cult delivers a night of retro rockin’ punk and psych noise at 529 with the Golden Pelicans and Wymyns Prysyn! Get your boogie shoes on and swing on down to the Kennesaw State University Museum of History for their 7th Annual 1940s Swing Dance, at 7pm with live big band tunes performed by the 18-piece Peachtree Jazz Edition! Alien plants and monstrous mayhem take over the Center for Puppetry Arts with their screening of Frank Oz’ cult classic, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) at 7pm! Make your way to the Lefont Theatre for their 30th Anniversary restoration screening of Daniel Schmid’s TOSCA’S KISS (1985) at 10:30am! Get funky with War as they invade the Variety Playhouse! Get the blues with Barry Richman at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get folksy at The Earl with Tyler Ramsey (Band of Horses) and Ruby the Rabbitfoot! Roxie Watson delivers a night of old-time country string band shenanigans at Eddie’s Attic! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night of tributes with The Pinups rockin’ out to Bowie tunes and the Joan Jett tribute band, The Cherry Bomb! Get your gothic country and dirty bluegrass fix at the Masquerade with The Green Gallows, Meghann Wright, Lion & Company and Ye Flask! The New Agrarians deliver their traditional southern folk with Granville Automatic at the Red Clay Theatre! Blues it up with Mike Lowry at The Family Dog! Get absurd and rock out with Yann Tiersen at Terminal West! Or get jazzy with Steve Tyrell at Center Stage! Rock on down to The Mammal Gallery for a night with Uncle Vann & the Buzzards of Fuzz, Beauregard & the Downright and wWAYLon! Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with Jarekus Singleton! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of blues and Americana with EG Kight! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ for the second night this week with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 16

It’s a wild rumpus at the William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum with their exhibit, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” through July 5! Take in a matinee at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 as they screen Tim Burton’s EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990) during their AMC Classics series at 2pm! Folk on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Patty Larkin! Bebel Gilberto delivers a night of bossa nova and samba at the Variety Playhouse! Rock on down to The Plaza Theater for the premier screening of Phillipe Vieira’s GHOSTALKIN (2014), a documentary telling the story of local artist, musician and “neo-renaissance” man, Swami, featuring cameos by Bill Sheffield and Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck, at 7pm! And blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Tony Bryant!

Ongoing

Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents “The Elephant Man” through Nov. 16! (LAST CHANCE!)

Center for Puppetry Arts adapts Larry Roemer’s classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964) through Dec. 28!

Museum of Design Atlanta(MODA) exhibits 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair through Jan. 4!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Fueling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Baby, it’s cold outside! But no worries! Retro Atlanta promises to get you warm and toasty with a week of rockin’ good times, and shakin’ shenanigans galore! So get hip to the jive and come on out to see what Retro Atlanta has in store for you!

Monday, November 3

Don’t let the Monday blues keep you down! Rock down to the Masquerade for a night with Hot Water Music, Dave Hause and The

Dave Hause, Photo Credit: Jen Maler Photography

Flatliners! Or for a night of retro rock and psych funk, head over to Terminal West for J. RoddyWalston & the Business and Fly Golden Eagle! Get folksy with MarkRogers & Mary Byrne, Love Me Till My Heart Stops and Moses Nesh at The Earl! Arts at Emory presents Clive Donner’s THE CARETAKER (1963), based on Harry Pinter’s play, during PinterFest at the Emory Schwartz Center. Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Get a little soul at Blind Willie’s with BrandonReeves! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ! And Halloween may be over, but the season still haunts with The Plaza Theater’s encore screenings of Ruggero Deodato’s CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1979), Ken Wiederhorn’s SHOCK WAVES (1977) and William Lustig’s MANIAC COP 2 (1990) will terrorize through Nov. 6!

Tuesday, November 4

It’s a night of mischief and mayhem as Vincent Vega and Jules go on a rampage at CineBistro at Town Brookhaven during their ‘Cineclassics 2014’ screening of Quentin Tarantino’s PULP FICTION (1994)! Get scroogey with The Muppets at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Brian Henson’s holiday classic, THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992) during their “Home for the Holidays” series at 7:30! Spice up your life at the Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of Federico Fellini’s I VITELLONI (1953) at 7pm (digital restoration)! Rock out at Eddie’s Attic with Ed Roland & theSweet Tea Project! For a night of back porch folk rock, stomp down to TheLoft for a night with Jamestown Revival, Pete Molinari and the LeftyWilliams Band! Or get your Americana fix at Java Monkey with TimPepper! Get jazzy at Gladys Knight’s Chicken & Waffles with Ron James! It’s a night of flamenco and Spanish folk tunes at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Carmen Ladesma & Jose Mendez straight from Spain! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with KoolKat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets the blues with the Bob Page Trio! Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with Blues Station! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 5

The English Beat and Hermits of Suburbia invade theMasqueradewith a whole lotta skankin’ ska, reggae and new-wave!Get glammed up and rock out with The Unsatisfied and Ajeva at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Atlanta Room! Or get bluesy in the Music Room with Maria Maldaur and Francine Reed!Or get cosmically rocked atVinylwith Cass McCombs and The Meat Puppets!The Earl delivers a night of retro rock and pop with the Dum Dum Girls, Ex Cops and Del Venicci! Swing on by the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant for a rockin’ rollin’ swing dance with HepCat’s Hop, every first Wed. of the month! Get glamorous at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) as they screen Deborah Riley Draper’s peek into the history of the fashion world, VERSAILLE ’73: AMERICAN RUNWAY REVOLUTION (2012), while getting to experience their 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair exhibit, running through Jan. 4! Rock out at 529 with Meatbodies, Purling Hiss, the Vincas and Landline! Emory Arts’ delivers their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Andrzej Wajda’s THE WEDDING (1972) at White Hall! Or creep down to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for their screening of Henry Selick’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) at 2pm and 7pm, during their AMC Classics series! Honky-tonk on down to The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza,featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Make your way to Elliott Street Pub for Alex Gordon Hi-Fi! It’s your last chance to get comfy with The Muppets at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Brian Henson’s holiday classic, THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992), part of their “Home for the Holidays” series at 7:30! The Black Lillies deliver a night of Americana at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with Andrew Black! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 6

TheVariety Playhouse rocks out with one of the “most influential guitar players to come out of the British blues rock scene,” Robin Trower and Tony Levitas! Blues it up at The Strand Theatre with Roger “Hurricane” Wilson! Get folksy with Kate Callahan at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s a night of vintage ‘60s inspiration at the Buckhead Theatre with The New Pornographers and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart! It’s an old-time string band hootenanny at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room with Acoustic Syndicate and The Hackensaw Boys! Or rock out retro-style in the Atlanta Room with BAST, Missing Letters, The Yev and Frisky Monkey! Terminal West delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Aaron Behrens (Ghostland Observatory) & the Midnight Stroll! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with Nine Years Apart and Jason C. Waller! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Delifor their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get the blues, Americana-style with Heather Luttrell at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 7

Hey kiddies! It’s Corndogorama 2014, celebrating 18 years and rockin’ out at The Star Bar, with 2 days of rockin’ tunes for a cause! This year’s charity is the Children’s Restoration Network (CRN) and tonight’s musical lineup, beginning at 9 pm is Brain Box, Coma Girls, All My Vices At Once and more! It’s a night of ‘70s Brit rock at the Variety Playhouse with Ian Hunter & the Rant Band(Mott the Hoople) and Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby! Honky-tonk punk on down to 529 for Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, The North Trolls and The Marrows! Culture jam with Mark Hosler (Negativland) at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery! Get revived and swing on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Donkey and The McNifficent 7! Rock down to the Highlander for a night with Ricer, the Rememberables and Spray Tan! Get funky at Big Tex with Dapper Slap! Boogie on down to The Strand Theatre for their presentation of Quentin Tarantino’s PULP FICTION (1994), with a dance-off on stage before the show! Get artsy with film at Film Love’s event, Through the Image: The Power of the Visual in Storytelling at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center! Emory Arts’ delivers their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Wojciech Has’ THE SARGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (1964) at White Hall at 7:30pm! Get jazzy, New Orleans-style at the Ferst Center with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band w/ Allen Toussaint! Get funky at The Family Dog with Sugarfoot! Shimmy down to Center Stage for the Clubesque: A Modern Cabaret event! The Rockaholics deliver a night of blues, rock and soul at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Boogie under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event delivering a night of Chicago and West Coast blues with the Electromatics! Rock out at the Northside Tavern with the Allman Brothers Tribute Band! Get down and dirty at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Snake Legs! Get some soul at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Gareth Asher & the Earthlings! Delta Moon delivers a night of blues, Americana and roots at Blind Willie’s! John Sosebee delivers the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 8

It’s day 2 of Corndogorama 2014 at The Star Bar! Today’s musical line-up will have you rockin’ all night for a great cause, beginning at 2pm with Spray Tan, Blue Tower, Chickens & Pigs, Hip to Death, Glen Iris, The Higher Choir, Kool Kats Spirits & the MelchizedekChildren, Skin Jobs, Zoners, Kill Baby, Kill, Guantanamo Baywatch, Book of Colors, PLS PLS and more! It’s a day of rockin’ and revvin’ at Frazier’s Harley-Davidson with their Rockabilly Rat Rod & Car Show from 11am to 4pm, offering tasty food, and live music with Grim Rooster (ft. Kool Kat Phil Stair), hosted by Kool Kat Rev. Andy and Garage71! It’s a night of garage and retro rock at The Mammal Gallery with The Ray City Rollers, Blake Rainey & His Demons and The Southern Gentlemen League! It’s a night of alt-funk metal rock at the Tabernacle with Primus! Get funky with Ajeva at The Family Dog! Rock out with the Melvins and Honky at The Loft! Honky-tonk on down to the Dixie Tavern in Marietta as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza,featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! You won’t want to miss Atlanta’s premier screening of Billy Wilder’s FEDORA (1978) at the Lefont Theatre at 10:30am! And don’t forget to catch the 35mm screening of Federico Fellini’s I VITELLONI (1953) at Midtown Art Cinema at 10am! The Lone Bellow delivers a night of alt-country, blues and folk rock at SCADShow! Get jazzy with a bit of Dylan-style folk at the Red Light Café with Spottiswoode & His Enemies! The “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin will have you boogyin’ all night at theFox Theatre! Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) delivers his ELP legacy at theVariety Playhouse! Get rootsy at Vinyl with Cody Marlowe & the Dead Flowers! Blackfoot Daisy delivers a night of Americana at Java Monkey! Get folksy with Randall Bramblett at Eddie’s Attic! Spend an evening with blues chanteuse Francine Reed & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get funky at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with the Billy Thompson Band! Blues it up at the Northside Tavern with Ike Stubblefield! It’s a night of indie folk and roots rock at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room with Rosco Bandana, Cornmeal and Radio Birds! Or stomp over to the Atlanta Room for a night with Buck O Five, Amnesty Road and Rob Cash (Six Ways to Sunday)! Get funky with Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue with Lingo at the Buckhead Theatre! Bluegrass it up at Big Tex with Georgia Railroad! Groove over to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with The Bitteroots and Nine Times Blue! The Stooge Brothers deliver their rockin’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 9

Rev on down to The Earl for a rockin’ night with Reverend Horton Heat and El Capitan & the Band With No Name! Calling all vivacious vintage gals! Get saucy at Grease Inc, Magazine in Buford at their Pin-Up Boot Camp, from 11am to 5pm, with full day of learning hair and make-up basics and all things vintage! It’s vigilante day at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 during their matinee AMC Classics screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN (1989) at 2pm! The Atlanta Symphony delivers a night of baroque, operatic and indie pop with Rufus Wainwright! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at The Family Dog! Cedar Hill brunches out at Big Tex during their Bluegrass Brunch! And blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Tony Bryant!

Ongoing

Netherworld haunts with two terrifying haunted houses, “Season of the Witch” and “SPLICED” every weekend through Nov. 8! (LAST CHANCE!)

Center for Puppetry Arts presents “The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Silly Hollow” spooking through Nov. 9! (LAST CHANCE!)

Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents “The Elephant Man” through Nov. 16!

Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) exhibits 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair through Jan. 4!

The MariettaMuseum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

HepCat’s Hopgets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafiascreenings at theDiesel Fueling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Nightat 10pm, every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pikeand the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast ofLips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Hey all you Retro kiddies and blood-lusting miscreants! Get out and get spooked this week as Retro Atlanta gets gory, gussied up and ghostly in celebration of the most haunted and eerie time of the year! Retro Atlanta has everything your wicked little black heart could ever desire, from rockin’ tunes to nightmare-inducing flicks to horrifically exciting Halloween parties you won’t want to miss! So, come on out and haunt with the rest of us!

Monday, October 27

Rock out and do the monster mash with Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures during their live performance at Garage71 Internet Radio’s studio during Kool Kat Rev. Andy’s “Psychobilly Freakout”! Arts at Emory presents their “Pinter Staged Reading” series during PinterFest, with a free staged reading of “Moonlight”, directed by Brenda Bynum at the Emory Schwartz Center! For a night of adult horror and chilling madness, haunt on down to Chambers of Horror, running 7 nights a week through all of October! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Rock out softly at the Mill Town Music Hall in Bremen with Kenny Loggins! Barrelhouse Bob Page gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, October 28

Classic monsters are unleashed at Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of Fred Dekker’s, THE MONSTER SQUAD (1987) at 10 pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Or spend the night with the “Master of Suspense” at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Alfred Hitchock’s tale of mama’s boys and murder, PSYCHO (1960) during their Alfred Hitchcock Series at 7:30! Get murderous at the Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of Louis Malle’s ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958) at 7pm! Get possessed at CineBistro at Town Brookhaven during their ‘Cineclassics 2014’ screening of William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST (1973)! Steelism delivers a night reminiscent of Dick Dale and Booker T & the MGs at Eddie’s Attic with special guest Faye Webster! Stomp down to The Earl for a night with Cute Boots, Factory and 100 Watt Horse! Get rocked heavily at the Gwinnett Center with Judas Priest! Get a taste of old-time country at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Secret Sisters! Let the heads roll at the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present “The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Silly Hollow” spooking through Nov. 9! Bluegrass it up at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Curtis Jones &Primal Roots! It’s a night of retro shenanigans at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get some rhythm ‘n’ soul at Blind Willie’s with The Hollidays! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern! And rock out with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Wednesday, October 29

Get rocked and horrified with a little 70’s Italian horror-esque rock with Father Murphy, Chamber Cartel and In Sonitus Lux at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery! Experience Dracula’s (a.k.a Timothy Albrecht) “Scary Ride”, a Halloween-themed organ concert at the Emory Schwartz Center at 8pm! Get your rockin’ fill of Bill Kirchen, “Titan of the Telecaster” at Smith’s Olde Bar! The OBN IIIs deliver their vintage ‘70s Detroit rock at The Earl with Dinos Boys and Skin Jobs! It’s a night of ‘60s R&B at the Buckhead Theatre with Lake Street Dive and The Congress! Get baroque (but not broke!) and rock out at the Drunken Unicorn with Motopony and The Family Crest! The Studio Movie Grill (Duluth and Alpharetta locations) will get you in the haunted spirit with their screenings of John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978) at 7:30pm! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern delivers their second screening of Alfred Hitchock’s PSYCHO (1960) during their Alfred Hitchcock Series at 7:30! Or catch Hitchock’s masterpiece at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 during their AMC Classics screening at 2pm and 7pm! Get epic with Emory Arts’ during their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Jerzy Kawaterowicz’s PHARAOH (1965) at White Hall! Honky-tonk on down to The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins delivers her rockin’ woman blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s a night of psychedelic folk blues with the Chris Robinson Brotherhood at Center Stage! Honky-tonk over to Terminal West for a night with Hooray For the Riff Raff! It’s a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s with the Electromatics! The Hollidays deliver some rhythm and soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 30

All Hallows Eve-Eve has arrived folks! “Monsters in Black and White” brings their second chilling installation at Cinevision with Kool Kat Ben Ruder of Enjoy the Film delivering Karl Freund/Tod Browning’s DRACULA (1931) in glorious 35mm at 7:30pm, with a spooky intro by Prof. Morte (Kool Kat Shane Morton) of the Silver Scream Spook Show! Get undead at Vinyl as ATL Collective delivers their presentation of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”! Get ghoulish at The Star Bar’s pre-Halloween party with The Clap, Breathers and the Shepherds! Don’t forget that Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse‘s (AZA) zombie outbreak will have you running for your lives this spook-filled season! Catch rock icon and cult favorite, Paul Collins (The Beat) with Zoners and the Moreland Wrecks at 529! Rock out vintage-style at the Dashboard Co-Op as WRAS Album 88.5 presents Gringo Star (see our Kool Kat interview soon!) and their 7” release party with the MoodRings! Tonight is opening night for Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s presentation of the 19^th century tale of a freak show attraction’s longing to be a normal man in “The Elephant Man” running through Nov. 16! Get spooky at the Westview Cemetery with their “Party with the Past” event, celebrating its 130th anniversary at 5:30pm! It’s the devil’s night out at Mary’s with their Goth Night party delivering all the rockin’ goth, new-wave and industrial your naughty little hearts could desire, at 9pm! It’s a night of psychedelic cosmic and scuzz-filled glam stomp at Terminal West with Temples and Spires! Rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Grateful Dead tribute band, the Scarlet Begonias! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with The Matchsellers and Georgia Railroad! Get ‘90s indie and rock out with Mike Doughty at Eddie’s Attic for 2 shows! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint delivers some New Orleans funk and R&B with The Mar-Tans! Get the blues with Blind Cadillac at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Delifor their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s!

Friday, October 31

IT IS FINALLY HERE! Get mischievous all you miscreants, spooks and ghouls! Pull out your ghastly costumes and get spooky and see what gory galas Retro Atlanta has in store for you! Do the “Time Warp” at The Plaza Theater during their Rocky Horror Halloween Costume Party, with a live cast featuring Lips Down on Dixie, a complimentary Rocky gift bag and screenings of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 9pm and midnight! Or monster mash over to The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock Monster Mash Halloween Dance Party, featuring costume contests, games and more! The Goat Farm Arts Center is hosting their Halloween 2014 event with a helluva lot of spectacle, art, performances by Kool Kat Mike Geier as Puddles Pity Party, Ninja Puppet Productions, biting bites from Pallookaville and more! Or help Pallookaville celebrate their first year anniversary in classic monster style at their 1st Anniversary Ice Scream Ball & Halloweiner, featuring costume contests, drink specials, live music and tricks ’n’ treats, until midnight! It’s Fright Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX, so boogie on down with the bone-rattlin’ tunes of Bogey & the Viceroys, have a couple devilish drinks and wake the dead under the dinosaurs! Get ‘80s monster retro at Sports Time Bar & Grill with Denim Arcade (with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch) and Radio Cult! Rock down to The Star Bar for their 24th Anniversary Party & Halloween Bash featuring The Biters (special KISS show), Dinos Boys and the Night Terrors (Motley Crue set)! Mary’s puts on a spooky disco with their 10th Annual Halloweenie Spooky Monster Mash that’ll have you boogyin’ to some killer rock ‘n’ roll! Get revved and “rock-o-weened” at the Porterdale Bar & Grill with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Monstrous vampires invade Paris on Ponce at their Le Grande Halloween Party, featuring two screenings of F.W. Murnau’s spook-fest and blood-curdling, NOSFERATU (1922), accompanied by Felipe Barral at 10:30pm and 1:00am! Rock down to the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club for their Annual Halloween Bash featuring DJ Evil Jet! Yacht Rock Schooner celebrates Samhain in style at The Strand Theatre! It’s your second chance to catch ATL Collective delivering Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” with The Shadowboxers at Vinyl! Swami Gone Bananas and Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fire up the blues during Northside Tavern’s Go-Go Party and Halloween Spectacular featuring the Atlanta Horns! Rock on over to the dark side asKool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his Halloween Goth & Industrial Blackout Party at the Famous Pub! Blues on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for their Halloween party featuring the Katie Martin Blues band! Celebrate Halloween with a twang at the Red Light Café at their Halloween Americana Bash featuring Dear Mr. Peasant, Sans Abri and Rye Baby! What better way to get monstrous that to run for you lives at Atlanta Zombie Apocolypse’s (AZA), kicking zombie tail until November 2! It’s “Hawgtoberfest” at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with The Dirty Doors! Or ride the “Highway to Helloween” all the way to Wild Bills with the rockin’ AC/DC tribute band, Back N Black and a rockin’ ZZ Top tribute with Tres Diablos! The Music Room will be a rockin’ maniacal riot at their Boom in the Toom and Blood Drunk Records Evil Dead Party featuring Hot Patootie, a rockin’ Rocky Horror cover band, Swank Sinatra, Kool Kats, The Joy Kills and more! Bring the kiddies out to the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center for their Halloween on Callanwolde Mountain event from 6-9pm, featuring Matthew Kaminski (Braves’ organist) and the Callanwolde Concert Band delivering selections from “Phantom of the Opera”, “Night on Bald Mountain” and more!

Get your magical fantasy fix at CONjurgation, a three-day convention featuring the Artifice Club, trick-or-treating, a marketplace/bazaar and panels bringing the fantastical to life, at the Atlanta Marriott Perimeter Center! The Plaza Theater shocks with their screenings of Ruggero Deodato’s CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1979), Ken Wiederhorn’s SHOCK WAVES (1977) and William Lustig’s MANIAC COP 2 (1990), all screening through Nov. 6! Or creep down to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for their screening of Henry Selick’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) at 4pm and 8pm! Get witchy at Atlantic Station for their screening of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) during their “Spooky Movie Fest” at 7:30pm! It’s a night of rockin’ tributes at The Earl with the Ted Kennedys (Dead Kennedys tribute), 30 Year Old Woman From Mars (all-female Misfits tribute), Nameless Nameless (Nirvana tribute) and Unknown Pleasure (Joy Division tribute)! Punk out at the Drunken Unicorn with Single Mothers, Sex BBQ and Sheeba Darwin! Get psychedelic at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Jerry Garcia Cover Band! It’s a night of gritty, sweat-drippin’, hip swingin’ blues at 529 with Curtis Harding and Black Linen! Rock out ‘60s and ‘70s-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with The Rainmen! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for Francine Reed & the Shadows! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down and dirty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out with Robyn Hitchcock (Soft Boys) at Eddie’s Attic! And The Band of Desperate Men deliver a night of Americana at Big Tex!

Saturday, November 1

Monster madness is taking over the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse with their Monster Bash Halloween Party! Rock out with costume contests, Horror movies, zombies and more! It’s a monster movie matinee with Kool Kat Ben Ruder of Enjoy the Film at Cinevision, at his third installation of his “Monsters in Black and White” series, with his screening of Jack Arnold’s THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954), in 3-D at 3pm! It’s day 2 of CONjurgation, so get witchy at their Samhain Ball with DJ Doctor Q at 9pm, and don’t forget to catch all the other magical goodness! Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers are puttin’ on a Day of the Dead hootenanny and Halloween party at Terminal West, so come on out for a whole lotta prohibition-era pandemonium with Indianapolis Jones! Rock on down to the House of Rock ATL for their Change Fest 2014, a free music festival, featuring a reunion of The Swimming Pool Qs, The Glenn Phillips Band with The B-52’s, Cindy Wilson, the Possum Kingdom Ramblers, Bill Sheffield and more! The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash are honky-tonkin’ it up at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room, while the Atlanta Room is chock full of folk troubadours, with Michael C. Smith, Marcus Wilbur and Mitch Haney! If you missed the Time-Warp shenanigans at The Plaza Theater on Halloween, here’s your chance to catch Tim Curry in all his alien transsexual glory, during their encore presentation off THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at midnight with a live cast by Lips Down on Dixie! Rock down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Tony Levitas! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Rock on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with the Rebel City Rockers! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola! Punk down to The Star Bar for their “I Love Saturdays” early show with wWAYLon, Alchemy, Owner of the Sun and Uncle Van & the Buzzards of Fuzz! It’s your second chance to catch Robyn Hitchcock (Soft Boys) at Eddie’s Attic! Get your garage folk fix at the Crimson Moon Café with Randall Bramblett and Eliot Bronson! And stomp on down to Cabbagetown for their Chomp & Stomp Bluegrass Festival, from 11-6pm! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 2

It’s day 3 and your last chance to get spell-bound at CONjurgation! Or creep down to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for a matinee screening of Henry Selick’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) 2pm! Folk down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with The Stray Birds with special guest, Jordie Lane! The Mountain String Band brunches out at Big Tex during their Bluegrass Brunch! And rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event, delivering a night of ‘60s and ‘70s covers!

Ongoing

Get headless and haunted at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, through Nov. 1! (LAST CHANCE!)

Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse will have you running for your life through Nov. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

Chambers of Horror terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering, 7 nights a week, through Nov. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

New London Theatre (Snellville) presents “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” through Nov. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Newnan Theatre Company Time-Warps it up with their presentation of “Rocky Horror Show” through Nov. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

Netherworld haunts with two terrifying haunted houses, “Season of the Witch” and “SPLICED” every weekend through Nov. 8!

Center for Puppetry Arts presents “The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Silly Hollow” spooking through Nov. 9!

Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents “The Elephant Man” through Nov. 16!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Retro Atlanta massacres this spooky season with all the haunting and bone-chilling madness your little black hearts desire! We’ve got horror and slasher flicks! We’ve got sinister seduction and the unruly undead! We’ve got ghosts and goblins and monsters, oh my! Become one with the creatures of the night this week and rock out with a helluva lot of spooktacular shenanigans!

Monday, October 20

Get terrified and undead at The Plaza Theater, with their screenings of George A. Romero’s cult classic, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) and Victor Halperin/Edward Halperin’s vintage horror classic, WHITE ZOMBIE (1932), both running through Oct. 23! For a night of adult horror and chilling madness, haunt on down to Chambers of Horror, running 7 nights a week through all of October! Get your fill of “Hank Williams on speed” at the Variety Playhouse with The Jayhawks! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Get jazzy at Blind Willie’s with Jacob Deaton! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, October 21

Get your boo-filled burly-Q fix with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South as they spice up your naughty black hearts at the Red Light Café during their Tease Tuesday: Boolesque Spooktacular event, with performances by Candi LeCouer, Ada Manzart, Bubble Bordeaux, Oracle, Tora Torrid, Nikki Nuke’m and more! The “Master of Suspense” gets bone-chilling at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their presentation of Alfred Hitchcock’s tale of murder and peeping toms in REAR WINDOW (1954) during their Alfred Hitchcock Series at 7:30! It’s a dystopian world at Midtown Art Cinema during their screening of Peter Brook’s LORD OF THE FLIES (1963) at 7pm! CineBistro at Town Brookhaven delivers a night of horror and suspense during their ‘Cineclassics 2014’ screening of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980)! Rock on down to 529 for a night with GHB, Cottaging and Wymyn’s Prysyn! It’s a Bluegrass Band Showcase at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs, so stomp on down for a night with the Atlanta Bluegrass AllStars, D.B.A. and the Possum Kingdom Ramblers! It’s a night of retro shenanigans at The Star Bar with Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets the blues with the Bob Page Trio! Get the blues at Blind Willie’s with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern! And rock out with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Wednesday, October 22

It’s a night of haunting Broadway at the Fox Theatre with Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera”, chilling through Nov. 2! Stomp down to the Red Light Café for a night with Caleb Warren (Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen) and Miguel Olasuaga (Blood on the Harp)! It’s your last chance to catch the “Master of Suspense” at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their presentation of Alfred Hitchcock’s tale of murder and peeping toms in REAR WINDOW (1954) during their Alfred Hitchcock Series at 7:30! Make your way to Emory Arts’ for their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Tadeusz Konwicki’s JUMP (1965) at White Hall! Honky-tonk on down to The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza,featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Get ghoulish at the Highland Inn Ballroom as SCENE MISSING presents their “There is no Atlanta, Only Zuul” event at 9pm, featuring comedy, skits and writing about ghostly films! Blues down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Timo Arthur! Get jazzy with Jacob Deaton at the Elliott Street Pub! The Hollidays deliver some rhythm and soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Spend the night with Matt Damon and Robin Williams at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 during their AMC Classics screening of Gus Van Sant’s GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997) at 2pm and 7pm! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 23

“Monsters in Black and White” invades Cinevision with Ben Ruder (see our Kool Kat feature soon!) of Enjoy the Film delivering Robert Wise’s THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) in glorious 35mm at 7:30pm! Or do the Time Warp at the Newnan Theatre Company during their presentation of “Rocky Horror Show” dishing out their “sweet transvestite from Transylvania” through Nov. 2! Get jazzy at the Suite Food Lounge as Jazz Beat Promotions presents their “Tribute to Joe Sample”! Get your circus funk fix at Terminal West with the MarchFourth Marching Band! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with Adam Klein and Reverend Hylton & the Devil’s Hands! The Earl delivers a night of garage rock and The Kinks/The Band-inspired tunes with Brass Bed, Lucis Flux and Cullen Curtis (Think Never)! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down and dirty at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 24

Get monstrous tonight as a helluva lot of haunted hootenannies invade Retro Atlanta! Get horrified, vintage-style at The Defoor Centre as Monsterama presents their free “Super 8 Monster Movie Madness” event from 6-11pm, featuring old-school creature-features screened in 8mm, by “Big in Japan” author, Timothy Price, venders, guests and more!The Plaza Theater gets maniacal and gory during their presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980), Clive Barker’s HELLRAISER (1987), Robin Hardy’s THE WICKERMAN (1973) and William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST (1973), all bone-chilling through Oct. 30!Get gore-ified at Sweetwater Bar & Grill at their rockin’ Halloween party featuring Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures, Cadillac Junkies, Fully Loaded and Crypt 24!Or get macabre and swing on down to the Red Light Café for a Samhain Soiree with Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing! Slash on down to Mary’s for their “Slumber Party Massacre” event, promising a night of creature-features, monster make-up and a slayin’ good time! Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse’s (AZA) zombie outbreak kicks the weekend off right, running every weekend until November 2^nd, giving you ample opportunity to kick some zombie tail! Get gothic at the Masquerade during their Ascension: Halloween in Hell Industrial Goth Night! Haunt on down to the Mammal Gallery for their Steampunk Monster Ball, featuring tunes by Candy Apple Black, the Quantum String Orchestra and more! Spend a night in terror at The Strand Theatre as they get spooky with their presentation of Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS (1963) at 8pm! Or creep on down to Atlantic Station for their presentation of Tim Burton’s ‘80s Halloween classic, BEETLEJUICE (1988) during their “Spooky Movie Fest” at 7:30pm! Spook on down to Grant Park and get cozy with the goblins as the Krewe of Grateful Gluttons puts on their Halloween Lantern Parade led by the high energy Black Sheep Marching Ensemble, gettin’ brassy and eerie in the dark at 6:30 pm!

Get Lynch-filled and disturbed with art and film celebrating Mr. Lynch at Mindzai Creative for opening night of “The Big Dream: A Celebration of Works Inspired by David Lynch” with twenty world-wide artists! Smithsonian delivers their rockin’ Smiths tribute at 529! Emory Arts presents Aleksandr Ford’s BLACK CROSS (1960) during their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series screening at 7:30 in White Hall! Junior Brown and The Roosevelts invade the Variety Playhouse with their old-time Americana and Texas country! Get your Russian folk fix at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with 9 String Theory! Rev on down to Motorheads in McDonough for a rockin’ night of rockabilly with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Get funky at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Main Squeeze, Dapper Slap and The Magic Beans! Get your Roxie Watson fix at the Red Clay Theatre! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for Blues Rendezvous! Houserocker Johnson & the Shadows get bluesy at Blind Willie’s! The Kelly Richey Band delivers some rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Kool Kat VJ Anthony presents his The Eighties: Hatful of Halloween music video and dance party at Famous Pub! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, October 25

Spook on down to DooGallery for their Haunted Art Show, featuring art by Kool Kat Shane Morton, Jeff Riggan (see our Shop Around feature of Jeff here), live music by the rockin’, Howling Star and so much more! The Strand Theatre gets bone-chilling with their screening of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) at 8pm! Sinister spirits invade Aurora Cineplex during their screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at 7:30! The Plaza Theater offers up a few ‘80s flicks with James Cameron’s THE TERMINATOR (1984) at 7pm and Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN (1984) at 9:30!Shimmy over to the Elliott Street Pub for Kool Kat Kitty Love’s Cheeky Belles Burlesque: Dress-Up Party at 8pm! Get your ‘80s alt-rock fix at The Star Bar with Blasting Cap! (featuring members of The Woggles and Guadalcanal Diary) and the Tim Lee 3 (The Windbreakers)! Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas deliver a night of rockabilly, surf and cabaret gypsy jazz at the Red Light Café! Spend an evening with the Paul Thorn Band at the Variety Playhouse! Or blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Ron Cooley & the Hard Times! Big Bill Morganfield gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s while Albert White gets the blues at the Northside Tavern! Rock down to The Earl for a night with Tedo Stone, Grand Vapids and Keath Mead! Or whet your appetite for some mid-90s indie funk and glam with of Montreal and Pillar Point at Terminal West! Eliot Bronson delivers his garage, polka folk rock with a CD release party at Eddie’s Attic, with special guest Jonathan Byrd! Put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! For something a bit more gore-filled and sinister, run for your life to Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse and see if you can survive the end of the world, running through Nov. 2! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, October 26

Blues on down to the Buckhead Theatre for an intimate evening with Justin Hayward, vocals for the Moody Blues! Spook down to The Strand Theatre during their screening of Paul Leni’s silent horror classic, THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927) backed by organist and Kool Kat Ron Carter! Rock out at The Earl with Secret Chiefs 3 and Atomic Ape! Viva la French comedies of Max Linder at SCADShow with screenings of Linder’s BE MY WIFE (1921), THE THREE MUST-GET-THERES (1922) and SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK (1921) at 2pm! Or get your murderous mama’s boy fix at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 with their screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) at 2pm! Darrell Scott bluegrasses it up at Eddie’s Attic! Get folksy at the Red Light Café with The Ragbirds! Beausoleil Avec Michael Doucet delivers 37 years of Cajun tunes at the Variety Playhouse! Banjolicious brunches out at Big Tex during their Bluegrass Brunch! And it’s your last chance this week to get horrified and grotesque while fighting for your life with the undead at Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse!

Ongoing

Historic Oakland Cemetery’s Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2014 Ghost Tours, haunt through Oct. 25! (LAST CHANCE!)

Follow the yellow brick road all the way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their presentation of “The Wizard of Oz” through Oct. 26! (LAST CHANCE!)

Get headless and haunted at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, through Nov. 1!

Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse will have you running for your life every weekend through Nov. 2!

Chambers of Horror terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering, 7 nights a week, through Nov. 2!

New London Theatre (Snellville) presents “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” through Nov. 2!

The Newnan Theatre Company Time-Warps it up with their presentation of “Rocky Horror Show” through Nov. 2!

Netherworld haunts with two terrifying haunted houses, “Season of the Witch” and “SPLICED” every weekend through Nov. 8!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Fueling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.